From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/4/2025 12:33 AM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:   
   > In article <10egihb$agf7$2@dont-email.me>, BCFD 36     
   wrote:   
   >> I started this series awhile back. I recently picked it up again. I am   
   >> enjoying it, except he keeps killing off characters I like. Not as bad   
   >   
   > I tried it way back when, but the premise just didn't work   
   > for me.   
   >   
   > When you get old and gray and arthritic, the Galactics say   
   > if you go to work for them, they will rejuvinate you, and   
   > make you immortal.   
   >   
   > That's the sales pitch.   
   >   
   > Thing is, no one ... not one person ... who took them up on   
   > this offer has ever been seen or heard from again.  Ever.   
   >   
   > Even though the Galactics are human, for all anyone could   
   > possibly know, It's A Cookbook(TM).   
   >   
   > Of course, it isn't, but what they do is clone a copy of you,   
   > upload a copy of your mind into the copy, and euthanize you.   
      
   I thought that the Colonial Defense Forces had a consciousness transfer   
   device ?   
      
   Lynn   
      
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